Venting Lyricism, Poetry, and Philosophy: Leave Your Favorite Text or Quote Here

[Seele]

"I believe that lyricism, poetry, and similar forms are ways we mitigate our own pain, helping us forget—even if just for a brief moment—the reality that consumes us. One of the protective mechanisms nature created to shield the mind from the grim reality of the world, according to Zapffe, is:

'Sublimation is the redirection of energy away from negative outlets towards positive ones. Individuals distance themselves and view their existence from an aesthetic perspective (for example, writers, poets, painters). Zapffe himself noted that his own works were products of sublimation.'

Feel free to leave your own writing or a favorite quote here—I truly enjoy reading these."

 

[Margin3458]

"Life is a journey towards death"
and
"Lotto ist eine zusätzliche Steuer für Menschen die Hoffnung haben" which translates to something like "Lotto is an extra tax for people that have hope"

It refers to the state regulated gambling.

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

You are where you are in your journey; that's a fine place for you to be. You're under no obligation to know where you'll be five years from now.

Also, the quote in my signature. I wanted to find a cake-related quote for my signature here years back and that one really grabbed me when I found it.

 

[Seele]

"Life is a journey towards death"
and
"Lotto ist eine zusätzliche Steuer für Menschen die Hoffnung haben" which translates to something like "Lotto is an extra tax for people that have hope"

It refers to the state regulated gambling.

I liked,reminds me of a quote from a young philosopher who committed suicide at the age of 23
"
Noi col filo
col filo della vita
nostra sorte
filammo a questa morte." Carlo Michelstaedter

translation:" with the threads of our life we weave our own death."

 

[yellowjester]

"To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave."

- Michel de Montaigne

He has so many great ones, but I don't have the energy to dig them up rn. I highly recommend reading his entire essay 'to philosophize is to learn to die', it's one of my favorite things ever writtem.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I learnt of this quote just recently and I think it's so accurate when it comes to the suicide or right to die:

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable".

This is another quote that I like:

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

Lastly, a quote from epicurus:

"Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?"